student learning. Parents and school committees are neither aware of their oversight roles nor participating in school …

comparable groups. She also finds that some incentives for teachers at the school level improve learning achievement. For …

' perceptions of school management. When teacher data are matched with school-level data on student achievement using a national … assessment data set (SIMCE), some teacher and school characteristics affect student performance, but a great deal of unexplained … authority, whether the school schedule is strictly enforced, and the extent to which teachers have autonomy in designing …

are important in explaining students' achievement. Third, investment in primary school teachers is most effective when … schools with a high degree of supervision on the part of the school principal achieve better scores. …

This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the … Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …

over resource allocation, monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey this paper finds …

, which was developed to keep large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis. It was … expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, as … have been effective in reducing dropouts in the lower secondary school (where students are more susceptible to dropping out …

relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas … yields only small increases in average school participation, and only small reductions in within-country inequality. The data … endogenous school placement. Data can be geographically matched over time in three of the study countries and under some …

-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed, so that …